Play Summaries
- Masters of the Trade
- Michael Rowen deceives the Native Americans, gaining land and causing the tribe's death.
- Courtship of Morning Star
- Michael Rowen kidnaps and rapes Morning Star, producing a son, Patrick.
- The Homecoming
- Patrick Rowen kills Joe Talbert and claims Rebecca Talbert as his wife, starting a cycle of revenge between the two families.
- Ties That Bind
- Patrick Rowen, deeply in debt, loses all he owns to the Talberts and becomes a sharecropper on his own land.
- God's Great Supper
- Jed Rowen recounts his haunting experiences in the Civil War, including his family's successful revenge against the Talberts as well as his encounters with William Clarke Quantrill.
- Tall Tales
- Working for the coal companies, a smooth-talking man named J.T. Wells swindles the Rowens out of their land.
- Fire in the Hole
- A union organizer attempts to rally Mary Anne Rowen's family and fellow miners into striking against the Blue Star Mining Company.
- Which Side Are You On?
- An underhanded deal between the union and the Blue Star Mining Company pits Joshua Rowen, James Talbert Winston, and Franklin Biggs against each other.
- The War On Poverty
- Three descendants of the Rowen, Talbert, and Biggs lines find something unexpected buried on the original Rowen homestead, shortly before they are to sell the land forever.
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